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The University of Murcia has presented the process of participatory budgeting for 2019 in an act that has taken place in the Rectorate.
From this Tuesday and until next Friday, May 17, the entire university community will be able to vote the participatory budgets corresponding to the 2019 exercise. Through an online survey, students, teaching and research staff (PDI) and administration and services personnel (PAS) ) will show their preferences among twenty proposals for action to allocate a total of 150,000 euros, amount collected in the statement of expenditure of UMU budgets.
As explained by María Belda, UMU's coordinator of Economy, "the different proposals are aimed at supporting initiatives and actions related to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) such as gender equality, inclusive university, the right to refuge or actions to improve energy efficiency, as well as aid for study and national and international mobility, scholarships, support for cultural and sports activities, improvement of infrastructure and parking, coordination with secondary, support for research, services assistance, training events, bibliographic funds, UMU brand and university welcome ".
All of them have been defined by the committee that has developed this process and which includes two representatives of the Student Council (CEUM), two representatives of the PAS, two of the PDI and also members of the Economic Management area.
Through the survey, each member of the university community will be able to distribute up to a maximum of 100 euros among the proposals that, in his opinion, should be attended to, being able to assign this amount to a single project if he considers it appropriate.
The coordinator of Economy of the UMU has added that "it is a query without weighting the vote among the various groups (students, PAS and PDI), where each of them will decide the fate of 50,000 euros under the principle of one person, a vote".
José Antonio Cascales, manager of the UMU, has emphasized that the participatory budgets of the institution seek to promote participatory democracy and the involvement of the entire university community in the management of part of the budget of the University.
"It's about creating a more direct connection between the university community and its budget," he added.
For his part, José Manuel Mayor, representing the Council of Transparency of the Region of Murcia, has pointed out that this initiative allows to advance transparency and accountability and "meets one of the requirements of the Quality Charter of participatory budgets: continuity".
He has also highlighted the previous experiences of participatory budgeting carried out within the University of Murcia, among which are those made by the Department of Fine Arts and the Faculty of Biology in 2018 or the Faculty of Communication and Documentation this year.
The ceremony was closed by the Rector Luján, who highlighted that "this project has an evident value in a context in which governance requires the participation of citizens in public affairs."
Source: Universidad de Murcia
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